Nuclear Warfare
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Defusing Armageddon: Inside Nest, America’s Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad
$25.99 Add to cartJeffrey T. Richelson reveals the history of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team, from the events leading to its creation in 1974 to today. Defusing Armageddon provides a behind-the-scenes look at NEST’… [more below]
- Author: Richelson, Jeffrey T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393349594
- Language: English
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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war–and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises–from Tru… [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1982107308
- Language: English
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To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima
$34.43 Add to cartThis book offers readers a stunning, “you are there” time capsule. Pellegrino’s scientific authority and relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative eve… [more below]
- Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
- Author: Pellegrino, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1538121786
- Language: English
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Japan at War: An Oral History
$39.67 Read moreA “deeply moving book” (Studs Terkel) and the first ever oral history to document the experience of ordinary Japanese people during World War II
“Hereafter no one will be able to think, write, or teach
- Author: Cook, Haruko Taya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 01 1993
- ISBN10: 1565840399
- Language: English
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Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartNuclear weapons have not been used in anger since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Yet even after the Cold War, the Bomb is still the greatest threat fa… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Siracusa, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198860536
- Language: English
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Made in Hanford: The Bomb That Changed the World
$22.95 Add to cartOn the eve of World War II, news of an astonishing breakthrough filtered out of Germany. Scientists there had split uranium atoms. Researchers in the United States scrambled to verify results and furt
- Author: Williams, Hill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0874223075
- Language: English
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Israel vs. Iran: The Shadow War
$34.95 Add to cartThe shadow war between Israel and Iran has been raging for more than three decades, ever since the Iranian revolution of 1979 ushered in a fundamentalist regime whose sworn enemies have consistently i… [more below]
- Author: Katz, Yaakov
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1597976687
- Language: English
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Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
$30.00 Read moreAlmost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in late March 1979, hoping to save themselves from an invisible enemy: radiation. The reactor at the nearby Three Mile
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021047
- Language: English
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Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World
$27.00 Add to cartThe astonishing biography of a mineral that can sustain our world- or destroy it
Uranium occurs naturally in the earth’s crust-yet holds the power to end all life on the planet. This is its fundamen- Author: Zoellner, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 014311672X
- Language: English
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The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians
$22.99 Read moreA first-person historical record of the Manhattan Project, and the events leading to the birth of the Atomic bomb, as told by the researchers, scientists, and developers intimately involved in its cre… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Cynthia C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0762471271
- Language: English
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Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away
$19.00 Add to cartThis “historical page-turner of the highest order” (The Wall Street Journal) tells the chilling, little-known story of an American-born Soviet spy in the atom bomb project during World War II, perfect… [more below]
- Author: Hagedorn, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1501173952
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of the Manhattan Project
$41.99 Add to cartThe atomic age began at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, with the explosion of “the Gadget” at Trinity near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Prelude to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which forced the capitu
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Joseph, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1684420741
- Language: English
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Uaps and the Nuclear Puzzle: Visitations, National Security, and the Need for Transparency (Incidents That Demand Investigation and Disclosure)
$18.95 Read more“UAPs and the Nuclear Puzzle will help inform the public and move us forward on our journey toward a new understanding of history, UAP, and of our own true nature with respect to the larger reality t
- Author: Salas, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1637480164
- Language: English
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Geiger, Volume 1
$9.99 Add to cartThe critically acclaimed team of writer GEOFF JOHNS and artist GARY FRANK unites with superstar colorist BRAD ANDERSON to bring their first creator-owned hero to Image Comics!
Set in the years after a- Author: Johns, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1534320024
- Language: English
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Dr. Bloodmoney
$15.99 Add to cartA Nebula Award nominee, Dr. Bloodmoney is Hugo Award-winner Philip K. Dick’s darkly comic riff on Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War black comedy, Dr. Strangelove, a look at how humanity gets along after the… [more below]
- Author: Dick, Philip K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0547572522
- Language: English
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Deep Strike
$9.99 Add to cartIn Rick Campbell’s next action-packed thriller Deep Strike, the U.S. Atlantic fleet is in a race to stop a rogue Russian submarine–funded by ISIS–en route to launch a missile attack against the east
- Series: Trident Deception #6
- Author: Campbell, Rick
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1250323371
- Language: English
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
$22.00 Add to cartThe Oscar-shortlisted documentary Command and Control, directed by Robert Kenner, finds its origins in Eric Schlosser’s book and continues to explore the little-known history of the management and saf… [more below]
- Author: Schlosser, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: August 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125788
- Language: English
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Cold War Oklahoma
$21.99 Add to cartOklahoma might seem like an unexpected place for Cold War tensions to boil over, but the state played a key role in a conflict that threatened global annihilation. Altus Air Force Base served as a hub… [more below]
- Author: Brewer, Landry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1467142255
- Language: English
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The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
$18.95 Add to cartIt began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and s
- Author: Olson, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0393868354
- Language: English
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Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
$17.99 Add to cartONE of THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS of the YEAR * A VANITY FAIR and TOWN & COUNTRY BEST BOOK of the YEAR *
New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous Am- Author: Blume, Lesley M. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1982128534
- Language: English
